"I've teamed up with Kathryn Bigalow (sic) for a movie based on the Detroit riots in 1967. #12thstreet," Boyega tweeted.

The untitled Detroit drama marks Bigelow's return to the director's chair for the first time since 2012's "Zero Dark Thirty."

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" alum John Boyega (l.) has been cast in Kathryn Bigelow's drama set during the 1967 Detroit race riots.

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Though little is known about the script, written by Bigelow's frequent collaborator Mark Boal, the movie will be set amid the backdrop of the riots that left 43 dead over five violent days in the summer of 1967.

Racial tensions were stoked by a police raid on a bar, and by the end of the chaos, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson called in the National Guard to quell the riots.